{"product_id":"what-we-both-know-isbn-9780771096730","title":"What We Both Know","description":"\u003cb\u003e2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eMy Dark Vanessa,\u003c\/i\u003e a mesmerizing, disturbing, and thoroughly compelling novel about one woman’s role in preserving—or destroying—her famous father’s legacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn front of me are hundreds of pages of work. Already I feel it leaving me. He will obliterate what is there, replace it, deny I ever wrote a word. But, he cannot take the words I write on my own.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHillary Greene’s father, once a celebrated author and public figure, is now losing his memory and, with it, his ability to write. As her father’s primary caretaker, each day begins with two eggs, boiled and Charlie Rose or some other host on the iPad screen. Her father compulsively watches himself in old interviews, memorizing his own speech, trying to hang on to who he was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn aspiring author herself, Hillary impulsively agrees to ghost-write his final work—a memoir spanning his career—and release it in his name. Diving deep into her father’s past, and in turn her own, a horrifying truth begins to piece itself together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith full control over her father’s memoir, Hillary is faced with a stark choice: reveal her father as a monster or preserve his legacy as a respected literary figure. But she wonders what writing the truth will do to her and if it will damage her own prospects for a career. Whichever option she chooses, Hillary has to deal with the significant pain writing the memoir has re-surfaced—specifically, how the truth about her father adds to her grief over the death of her enigmatic sister, Pauline. For the first time in her life, Hillary holds the power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in the wake of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, \u003ci\u003eWhat We Both Know\u003c\/i\u003e is a visceral, intimate, and complex novel about confronting the personal and professional consequences—and potentially devastating fallout—of revealing the truth about a famous man.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhat We Both Know\u003c\/i\u003e and Fawn Parker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writing out Baby’s storied life (Parker features a few chapters of the memoir-in-the-making) and summoning hazy, distressing memories of the past, Hillary captivates as an individual with a poignant vulnerability and a sure capability that’s eroded by self-doubt and an overwhelming past. She’s Parker’s terrific invention, of course, and her agonies—as well as her wit and her wild missteps — offer testimony to Toronto’s Parker (author, previously, of \u003ci\u003eDumb-Show\u003c\/i\u003e), whose stylish and expressive writing anatomizes complex familial relationships and the sheer difficulty of finding correct courses of action.” —\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A master of indirection, Parker wants to demonstrate how language expresses trauma, but also the ways words are used to avoid or disguise pain. Parker is a poet, and her precision of language yields visceral, difficult insights.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFAWN PARKER is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhat We Both Know\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize, \u003ci\u003eSet-Point, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDumb-Show,\u003c\/i\u003e and the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eSoft Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize and the J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award. Her story “Feed Machine” was longlisted for the 2020 Writers’ Trust McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart Journey Prize, and her story “WunderHorse II” was anthologized in André Forget’s \u003ci\u003eAfter Realism\u003c\/i\u003e. Fawn is a Ph.D. student at the University of New Brunswick. She divides her time between Toronto and Fredericton.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303313723621,"sku":"NP9780771096730","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771096730.jpg?v=1767743905","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/what-we-both-know-isbn-9780771096730","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}